Game-Ace’s 2025 Year in Review: Key Achievements and Highlights

For Game-Ace, 2025 was a year defined by meaningful growth. We significantly expanded our ability to deliver projects and strengthened the relationships we have across the industry.

While we certainly shipped many great games across different genres, this year was really special because we successfully ventured into new and important areas. A big part of our year was focusing on where entertainment meets necessity. We dove into high-demand sectors like serious games and gamification, where we successfully used fun to solve real-world problems. Alongside this, we significantly grew our expertise and strong presence in the ever-evolving worlds of iGaming, social casino, and crypto casino development.

From tackling large-scale simulations to creating engaging mobile and web experiences, one thing remained constant: our dedication to technical quality and to clear, reliable production processes. By paying close attention to emerging trends at global events and consistently delivering on our promises, we have shaped Game-Ace into a more versatile studio, ready and excited for all the opportunities that lie ahead.

Events

2025 became another active year for Game-Ace on the global conference circuit. Our team met with studios, publishers, and technology partners across the United States and Europe, strengthening existing relationships and opening new opportunities for co-development, art production, and technical collaboration.

Gamescom 2025

Game-Ace is gearing up for a very productive week in Cologne! Gamescom's incredible scale always provides the perfect environment for great professional conversations. From August 20 to 24, our Business Development Manager, Julia Boikova, will be there, excited to meet with partners, publishers, and studios. She is ready to discuss new development paths or explore how we can help expand your current production capacity.

Discussions focused on full-cycle development, co-development support, gameplay design, and art production. The event created a great space for us to have valuable discussions. It helped us make sure everyone was on the same page, review exciting upcoming opportunities, and clearly define how our team can best jump in to support titles, no matter what stage of development they are in.

Discussions focused on full-cycle development, co-development support, gameplay design, and art production. The event provided a structured environment to align expectations, review upcoming opportunities, and outline how our team can support titles at different stages of readiness.

Digital Dragons 2025

Digital Dragons once again proved to be a focused and productive conference for direct conversation with teams exploring new development ideas. Over three days, Anastasiia Tkachuk held dozens of meetings covering Unreal, Unity, Roblox, and specialized game art requests.

The event's compact format supported efficient communication and fast idea validation. Many discussions moved from introductions to practical planning, showcasing strong interest in prototyping, co-development, and long-term production support. Engagement remained consistently high, creating clear follow-up opportunities for both existing and new partners.

GDC 2025

At GDC 2025 in San Francisco, Game-Ace strengthened its involvement in global game development by participating in technical and business-oriented discussions. Chris Keeling represented our team and met with partners looking for solutions across design, engineering, and production scaling.

Conversations included project planning, pipeline optimization, and ways to increase development velocity without compromising quality. GDC remains a strategic platform for aligning on long-term cooperation, especially for complex titles requiring specialized engineering expertise.

ICE Barcelona 2025

ICE Barcelona 2025 offered a focused environment for networking with professionals in social casino game development. Our team met with clients, partners, and industry experts to review upcoming projects, evaluate opportunities for technical enhancement, and exchange insights about market direction.

The event confirmed strong demand for reliable development workflows and high-quality production capacity in social casino projects. Many discussions revolved around content updates, platform scalability, and long-term partnerships built around consistent delivery.

Exciting Game Projects

For us at Game-Ace, one of the most rewarding parts of 2025 was the sheer, amazing variety in the projects our team tackled. We had the chance to pour our expertise into so many exciting areas, including education, mobile entertainment, deep simulation work, and super-fast rapid prototyping. While every new release showed a different side of our expertise, they all had one thing in common: our unwavering focus on clear planning, technical consistency, and truly thoughtful design.

Financial Garden

Our year began with Financial Garden, a project that stood out for both its pace and purpose. Pinnacle Financial Strategies approached us with the task of replacing their aging Checking Navigator tool, and the result became a modern, WCAG-compliant educational game built around animated quizzes, badge progression, and a responsive interface that works on any device.

Institutions gained precise participation tracking, while end users could complete the entire course in one structured session. Delivered within ten weeks and later recognized with a 5.0 Clutch review, the project became a strong example of how careful UX design and gamification can elevate financial learning tools.

Demon Runner

As we continued refining mobile development pipelines, Demon Runner emerged as a compact but demanding endless runner that pushed our UX, animation, and systems teams to align around speed and clarity. Built in Unity for both iOS and Android, it centers on two quick actions, such as rolling to dodge hazards and striking to eliminate enemies.

A light RPG layer, including chests and permanent gear, added depth without slowing the game's pace. The project showed how even short-session mobile titles benefit from precise tuning and a complete, well-structured gameplay loop.

Ships At Sea

Midyear, our simulation chops really shone as we continued our co-development role on Ships At Sea. This title is built beautifully in Unreal Engine 5 and uses Nvidia WaveWorks, focusing on the nitty-gritty details of fishing, cargo transport, and service vessels operating in truly realistic sea conditions. Our team's main contributions focused on the systems that directly shape how the simulation looks and feels.

Our contributions centered on systems that directly influence how the simulation looks and feels in motion, including a reusable fishing net solution, improved water effects, and refined weather transitions. Balancing visual fidelity with stable performance under demanding sea states became a key part of our work, ensuring the core features remained scalable as the game expanded.

Bagged Up

While the simulation work was going on, our team also jumped into the live service world with Bagged Up. This is a fun sports prediction game built entirely around getting players to come back every day. The main loop is simple: you answer three new questions daily, and your accuracy fuels the weekly leaderboard. We also included a collectible card system, complete with a binder interface.

The collectible card system, paired with a binder interface, provided long-term goals that encouraged players to return regularly. Behind the scenes, Firebase powered the real-time logic while PlayFab supported inventory, rewards, and user accounts. The result was a mobile experience where prediction accuracy, not randomness, shaped progression, a precise fit for audiences who enjoy skill-based competition.

FPV Tank Hunter

Midway through the year, our prototyping efforts led to the creation of FPV Tank Hunter, an experiment that brought us deeper into drone physics and environmental interaction. Built in Unreal Engine 5.5, the prototype combined FPV-style control, wind and weather systems, signal coverage mechanics, and detailed terrains to simulate the challenges faced by real drone operators.

By collaborating directly with FPV professionals, our team ensured that flight behavior felt believable while still supporting the game's tactical nature. The prototype laid a strong foundation for further development in both entertainment and training contexts.

RC Mayhem

Alongside these projects, rapid production remained a recurring theme, and RC Mayhem demonstrated what our team can achieve under tight timelines. In just one month, the Unity prototype captured the feel of an arcade RC racing game set inside an abandoned mall, complete with boost mechanics, obstacle-rich tracks, and physics tuned for short, repeatable play sessions.

We accelerated development without compromising visual coherence or performance across PC, Xbox, and mobile. The project reaffirmed the value of a focused prototyping pipeline, especially when evaluating early game concepts.

Together, these titles shaped a development year defined by variety and momentum. From financial education to mobile action, competitive prediction, simulation, and fast-turnaround prototyping, each project expanded our capabilities while strengthening the practices that guide our production work today.

New Vectors

In 2025, Game-Ace expanded its capabilities by strengthening two strategic directions that consistently shaped client demand. Roblox game development became a natural extension of our production services as more partners looked for interactive experiences that reach younger audiences and support fast content cycles.

Our team built a reliable workflow that covers scripting, UI and UX design, 3D asset creation, optimization, testing, and live updates. The new approach now supports a broad spectrum of Roblox genres, including simulations, RPGs, obbies, shooters, social hubs, and brand-focused experiences that require clear engagement paths and scalable content delivery.

Simultaneously, we significantly deepened our expertise in the iGaming, social gaming casino, and crypto casino sectors. Recognizing the unique convergence of entertainment and high-stakes engagement, we adapted our pipelines to support the distinct needs of these markets. Whether it was implementing secure, transparent mechanics for crypto-based platforms or crafting the vibrant, retention-driven loops essential for social and mobile casinos, our team proved capable of delivering compliant, high-performance titles that stand out in a competitive landscape.

At the same time, staff augmentation continued to grow as a core part of our collaboration with studios that need flexible production support. Clients relied on our specialists to reinforce Unity and Unreal development, technical art, UI and UX design, animation, QA, and Roblox-specific roles. The model proved effective for organizations that needed consistent project velocity without long onboarding cycles, and it enabled teams to expand or contract resources predictably while maintaining quality.

The growth of these services introduced new opportunities for teams seeking structured support at critical points in development. Roblox development opened new possibilities for interactive products, and staff augmentation ensured that clients could move confidently through complex or time-sensitive projects. Both directions contributed to a more versatile and resilient service structure that will continue to evolve in the coming year.

Parting Thoughts

Reflecting on 2025, our progress came from consistent work across many fronts. New service lines took shape, established partnerships grew stronger, and our development teams delivered products that combined technical clarity with practical value. Each project, event, and collaboration contributed to a more stable foundation for the future.

As we move into the new year, we remain committed to improving our processes, supporting our clients' long-term goals, and expanding the range of solutions our partners can rely on. The direction is clear, and the work ahead continues to motivate our entire team.

Happy Holidays from Game-Ace!

As 2025, a truly transformative year, draws to a close, we want to express our deepest gratitude to every client and partner who placed their valuable trust in Game-Ace.

Your decision to collaborate with us, entrusting us with your vision, has been the essential factor in our growth. Whether we were tackling the complexities of advanced simulations, developing engaging social casino games, or crafting the large, immersive worlds you envisioned for platforms like Roblox, your involvement made the difference.

We are genuinely excited for what the New Year holds. The world of gaming moves incredibly fast, but we promise to be right alongside you, offering the latest technical skills, that essential creative spark, and the smooth production pipeline you need to stay ahead. We can’t wait to keep this successful journey going and help turn those next great ideas into reality in 2026.